October 19, Friday

LeCompton Constitution-Constitution for Kansas said people could vote for or against slavery but not for or against the constitution
Hinton Helper-Wrote The Impending Crisis of the South, against slavery and blacks
Republican Party-grew because democratic party split into north and south, 1860 controlled the government
Secession of the South- both thought they were better off without the other, James Buchanan did nothing to keep it from happening, thought secession was illegal but could not do anything about it
Election-November 1860, Inaug.- March 1861

October 17, Wednesday

Quiz chapter 18, chapter 19 handed out, work on collaborative Power Point: North and South

Whigs split in the election of 1852/slavery

- conscience whigs left it to the free soil party
- democratic victory
- 3rd political party system eventually emerges democrats/republicans
-Whigs split because of in decistion of slavery

KANSAS/NEBRASKA proposal

- Railroad in the north/ Kansas/Nebraska territories left to popular sovereignty/contradicted the Missouri Compromise/Alowed for more slave states

October 16, Tuesday

Chapter 18 Notes! Quiz tomorrow, chapter 18
POPULAR SOVEREIGNTY
--- Mexican Cession ~Compromise of 1850
--- Kansas Nebraska Territory --- (in Louisiana Purchase)
~Stephen A Douglas

October 18, Thursday

Connections with chapter 18 and 19:
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Supreme Court decision on slavery
The splitting of the political parties